2. Armour, from Linen to Plate

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Harness: the old word for a complete armour, from the French harneis, gear. Before dawn, around 1450, a young squire arms his knight for a tournament, feet first, the way the old English treatise says it must be done, and between the buckles, three thousand years of armour... Inside: Greek marines who wore a Bronze Age armour for eleven hours, the helmet with flapping bronze wings, a chest of Roman armour left behind at Corbridge, the pig-faced bascinet, the dent that gave us the word bulletproof, a knight who climbed the underside of a ladder, warhorses the size of ponies, and Spanish soldiers who borrowed Aztec cotton armour. Boucicaut will be there too. Chapters: Cloth and hide · The bronze men · Rings of iron · The Romans in strips · The knight in mail · Plates · The armourers · The arming · The squire · How heavy? · The tournament · The horse · Elsewhere · The last of the harness · What armour is. Sources: the Dendra endurance test (2023), Kalkriese and Corbridge, How a Man Schall Be Armyd (c. 1450), Le Livre des fais de Boucicaut, the Leeds armour treadmill study (2011). Read by a synthetic voice; script written and fact-checked by the show's team. Additional sounds: Joseph Sardin, BigSoundBank.com (CC0). More calm shows for the late hours: Embers of History (history), Slow Orbit (space), Myth and Score (composers). Every episode's full script: https://garryassistantoffice-alt.github.io/armoury/2.html On YouTube: Opera Stories https://www.youtube.com/@operastoriestv · Slow Orbit https://www.youtube.com/@sloworbitlectures Free line-by-line English translations of art songs: https://garryassistantoffice-alt.github.io/art-songs/ Enjoying the show? Leave a tip (no fees): https://ko-fi.com/artsongtranslations

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